VINTAGE CHINESE PORCELAIN BEADS Peach FRUIT 12mm pkg4 1982 POR29

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Sweet hand painted porcelain beads with little "woven" baskets of fruit on them! I believe the fruit is supposed to be peaches.

The detail is amazing in these beads as you can see in the photographs and I've never come across anything like these since our buying trip back in the 1980's when we found them in Hong Kong!

The luster on these beads is beautiful and they would be striking next to rose quartz beads or white chalcedony- please check my shop for these beads in both "round gemstone beads" and "luxury carved beads"!

The price is for 4 of these amazing rare beads which we
100% guarantee these beads to be vintage porcelain from China. They measure approximately 12mm each.

I sold many of these beads through the Smithsonian Institution's museum shop and mail order catalog during the 1980's and they were also featured in trunk shows at Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue during this same time period.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE: POSTAGE RATES HAVE RISEN DRAMATICALLY IN 2016
ORDERS INSIDE USA: A charge of $3.60 covers any first class shipment up to 8 ounces. Our beads vary so much in weight that it is impossible for us to apply a single add-on charge for multiple product orders. We will continue to refund to customers any amount that greatly exceeds our actual cost of shipping and handling.
ORDERS OUTSIDE USA: International First Class rates are now crazy: $13.50 for any package weighing from 1-8 ounces. Even an order for 2-3 small bead items may cost $13.50 or more, depending on the type of material (stone versus resin, for example). Please bear with us for a few weeks while we change our listings to account for the new rates. We apologize in advance if we have to adjust the postage cost of an order that has been placed. We will understand if an order is rescinded when the postage cost is too high relative to the product value.

All international orders have contents described as "loose beads" and are flagged as "commercial samples" or " gift" if you prefer to make your life easier when receiving your beads. If you'd like us to mark your order as " gift" instead please let us know!

All our beads are inspected one by one before being shipped. They are individually wrapped to protect them and then put in little plastic ziploc bags.

All vintage beaded jewelry is either shipped in a little gift box tied with a ribbon or in a vintage Chinese embroidered silk purse.

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